Les Argonautes, Jonas Descotte, Allérat, Dolcini, Roset, Pichanick, Vieira Leite - Purcell: Dido & Æneas, Circe (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626: Overture
02. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow (Belinda)
03. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Banish Sorrow, Banish Care (Chorus)
04. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment (Dido)
05. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Grief Increases by Concealing (Belinda, Dido)
06. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus)
07. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)
08. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Fear no Danger to Ensue (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
09. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Æneas, Dido)
10. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: Cupid Only Throws the Dart (Chorus)
11. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake (Æneas, Belinda)
12. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: To the Hills and the Vales (Chorus)
13. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act I Scene 1, The Palace: The Triumphing Dance
14. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Prelude for the Witches. Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress). Harm's Our Delight (Chorus)
15. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate (Sorceress). Ho, Ho, Ho (Chorus)
16. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun? (Two Witches, Sorceress). Ho, Ho, Ho (Chorus)
17. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: But Ere We This Perform (Two Witches)
18. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus)
19. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Echo Dance of the Furies
20. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 1, The Cave: Ritornelle
21. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
22. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman)
23. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear (Æneas, Dido)
24. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Haste, Haste to Town (Belinda, Chorus)
25. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act II Scene 2, The Grove: Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove's Command (Spirit, Æneas)
26. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Come Away Fellow Sailors (First Sailor, Chorus)
27. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: The Sailors' Dance
28. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: See the Flags and Streamers Curling (Sorceress, Two Witches)
29. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
30. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: Destruction's Our Delight (Chorus)
31. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 1, The Ships: The Witches' Dance
32. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: Your Counsel All Is Urg'd in Vain (Dido, Belinda, Æneas)
33. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: But Death, alas! I cannot shun (Dido)
34. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus)
35. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: Thy Hand Belinda; Darkness Shades Me (Dido)
36. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido)
37. Dido and Aeneas, Z.626, Act III Scene 2: With Drooping Wings (Chorus)
38. Circe, Z.575: We Must Assemble by a Sacrifice (Second Priest, Chorus)
39. Circe, Z.575: Their Necessary Aid You Use (First, Second and Third Priests)
40. Circe, Z.575: The Air, With Music Gently Wound (Second Priest, Third Priest)
41. Circe, Z.575: The Air, With Music Gently Wound (Chorus)
42. Circe, Z.575: Come Every Demon (First Priest)
43. Circe, Z.575: Circe, the Daughter of the Sun Obey (Chorus)
44. Circe, Z.575: You Who Hatch Factions (First Priest)
45. Circe, Z.575: Circe the daughter of the Sun obey (Chorus) II
46. Circe, Z.575: Magicians' Dance (Part 1)
47. Circe, Z.575: Pluto, Arise! (Second Priest)
48. Circe, Z.575: Magicians' Dance (Part 2)
49. Circe, Z.575: Lovers, Who to Their First Embraces Go (First and Second Women, Chorus)
50. Circe, Z.575: Great Minister of Fate (Chorus). At Your Dread Word (Second Woman)
51. Circe, Z.575: Great Minister of Fate (Chorus)

C’est à la Haute École de Musique de Genève où il étudie alors auprès de Nathalie Stutzmann que le contre-ténor Jonas Descotte fonde l’ensemble Les Argonautes, un ensemble à géométrie variable spécialisé dans la musique baroque. Si Jonas Descotte structure les grandes lignes de l’interprétation, il veut donner un maximum de liberté à ses musiciens dans leurs modes de jeu et dans leurs recherches du détail signifiant.

Le nom de son ensemble n’a pas été donné au hasard par ce jeune musicien. En choisissant de rendre hommage à Argos, célébré comme le premier navire de l’histoire, il se souvient aussi de sa propre épopée familiale autour de l’Atlantique, pendant six ans, à bord d’un catamaran. L’histoire des Argonautes semble alors être une parfaite métaphore de la politique de l’ensemble et de la propre expérience de son meneur : des héros au caractère bien trempé, fort de leurs exploits individuels, guidés par Jason pour canaliser les ressources de chacune et chacun.

Pour leur premier enregistrement, Jonas Descotte et Les Argonautes ont traversé la Manche, du moins symboliquement, pour cette version très habitée de Dido and Aeneas considéré comme le premier opéra, ou semi-opéra, composé en Angleterre. Enregistré à Genève au Temple de Chêne-Bougeries en 2021, le chef-d’œuvre de Purcell condense en moins d’une heure d’horloge toute la palette des sentiments humains que la musique peut évoquer, dans des formes multiples alliant comédie et tragédie. Jonas Descottes a construit son programme fort judicieusement, en faisant suivre ce bref opéra par des extraits du mask Circe dans lesquels l’évocation de l’Enfer fournit un excellent épilogue à la tragédie des amants de Carthage.

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